Sarah Barnard

Role:

  • Social Media Officer, 2022-2023

Contacts:

  • Email: socialmedia@polarnetwork.org

Background:

Sarah is an award-winning professional artist specialising in works inspired by polar exploration, history, polar environments and scientific discovery. She has also taken part in polar expedition training in Norway and was a resident artist on the Svalbard-based Arctic Circle expedition residency in 2022, and will be the first ever artist in residence for the Shackleton Autumn School in 2023.

Before becoming a full time artist, Sarah studied marine science in Cornwall and ocean exploration in Plymouth, and worked in the environmental science sector for a decade.